Ticino Debates Permit Pace as Italian Commuters Fill Morning Trains
The southern labour market is a timetable: Italian papers in the morning, Swiss shifts by eight.
March 2025
14 posts in the March 2025 file.
Friday, 28 March 2025
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Gotthard Base Tunnel Freight Holds Up as Road Queues Return
The long tunnel still does what the brochure promised for trains. Cars will have their own argument at Easter.
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Spring Motions Keep the Nuclear Ban on the Desk Without Lifting It
Nobody voted to pour concrete. Plenty of people voted to keep talking about pouring it.
Friday, 21 March 2025
Geneva Vacancy Stays Near the Floor as Spring Leases Open
Spring moving day is a tradition. In Geneva it is also a rumour of a key.
Thursday, 20 March 2025
SNB Cuts Policy Rate to 0.25 Percent as Inflation Cools
Low inflation and a firm franc produced another cut. Mortgage desks will notice more than tourists will.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
UBS Capital Talks Move From Slogan to Spreadsheet
The political sentence is simple: never again. The accounting sentence is not.
Monday, 17 March 2025
Parliament Starts the Argument Over FINMA's Next Set of Teeth
The political sentence is that the watchdog must be stronger. The unkind sentence is that it was not brave.
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Rhine Water at Basel Allows Fuller Barges After a Thin Winter
When the river is high enough, Switzerland's seaport is a quay in Kleinhueningen. When it is not, it is a surcharge.
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
National Council Argues Over Who Pays Rising Premium Subsidies
The premiums went out in January. The fight in March is about who covers the households that cannot.
Friday, 7 March 2025
Zurich Hearing on Tram Extensions Draws Neighbours and Shopkeepers
Everyone wants a shorter ride. Nobody wants their street to be the worksite.
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Farm Hearings in Bern Repeat the Direct-Payment Stalemate
The hearing had new slides. The sentences were last year's, spoken a little faster.
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Vaud Hospitals Report Longer Waits for Planned Operations
The buildings are there. The anaesthetists are not always. That is the waiting list in one sentence.
Monday, 3 March 2025
Spring Session Opens With Budget Leftovers and Health Costs
Deputies came back to files that do not wait for a new year: premiums, farmers and the large bank in Zurich.
Saturday, 1 March 2025
Parties Arrive Early for a Spring Session Built on Premiums
Deputies came back to Bern two days early to argue about invoices voters already paid in January.